T08 · Insecure Dependencies
- Location
SKILL.md:136- Finding
Unpinned Third-Party Dependency Installation
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md:136(also referenced individually at lines 231–234)
Vulnerability Type: Unpinned and unverified Python dependencies
Risk Level: Mediumbash pip install yfinance pandas numpy taTechnical Analysis
The Skill directs users or AI agents to install four packages from the configured Python Package Index without exact version constraints, cryptographic hashes, or a reviewed lockfile. Package resolution therefore depends on mutable upstream repositories and includes unconstrained transitive dependencies.
If an upstream package, maintainer account, package index, configured mirror, or transitive dependency is compromised, installation can execute attacker-controlled package build or installation logic with the privileges of the invoking process. The instruction also prevents reproducible dependency resolution and can introduce unexpected behavior or vulnerabilities when new package versions are published.
No evidence establishes that the named packages are currently malicious. The confirmed weakness is the unsafe, unverified dependency installation process.
Attack Path
- A user or agent follows the installation instruction in
SKILL.md. pipcontacts its configured package index or mirror and resolves the latest compatible versions of the named packages and their transitive dependencies.- An attacker compromises an upstream release, dependency, maintainer account, index, or mirror.
- The compromised component is selected because the Skill provides no version or hash verification.
- Malicious package installation or build logic executes in the local Python environment.
- The payload gains the same filesystem, network, process, and credential access available to the account running
pip.
Impact Assessment
Successful exploitation could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the invoking user or agent. The accessible scope may in ...[truncated 388 chars]
- A user or agent follows the installation instruction in
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Replace the direct installation command with a reviewed dependency manifest containing exact versions.
- Generate and retain cryptographic hashes for every direct and transitive dependency.
- Install with hash enforcement, for example:
bash python -m pip install --require-hashes -r requirements.txt - Use a lockfile generation workflow such as
pip-tools, and review dependency changes before updating the lockfile. - Perform installation inside a dedicated, non-privileged virtual environment rather than the system Python environment.
- Configure an approved package index or internal artifact repository and require TLS certificate verification.
- Add automated dependency vulnerability and integrity scanning to the release process.
- Document trusted versions of
yfinance,pandas,numpy, andta, including all resolved transitive dependencies.
